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Section 15 of Public Act 26-15 takes effect on 1 October 2026. It imposes provenance duties on covered providers of generative-AI systems with over one million monthly users that are publicly accessible for personal use by Connecticut consumers. It concerns generated or materially altered audio, images and video, subject to commercial and technical reasonableness.
Reading scope: Section 15 on pages 27–29 as exposed by the official enacted-text index. Direct PDF download timed out and a visual-layout check remains pending. This summary is confined to the retrieved definitions, duties, exceptions and enforcement provision; it is not a review of the entire 74-page act. 1 October 2026 is the section’s effective date and this entry’s catalogue date, not the act’s passage date. AI-assisted translation; independent human review pending.
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Connecticut provenance duties for large generative-AI providers take effect
Section 15 of Public Act 26-15 takes effect on 1 October 2026. It imposes provenance duties on covered providers of generative-AI systems with over one million monthly users that are publicly accessible for personal use by Connecticut consumers. It concerns generated or materially altered audio, images and video, subject to commercial and technical reasonableness.
Research question
Editorial interpretation: this regime makes identifiable provenance in generated media an infrastructure responsibility, providing context for how works are authenticated, circulated and interpreted. It does not decide authorship, artistic value or training permission, nor establish a worldwide labelling rule for all AI text and images.
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DOC-U261001-03Connecticut Public Act No. 26-15, An Act Concerning Online Safety, Section 15Sources
Connecticut General Assembly · EN · Date unknown
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